Grants Program Criteria   • Grants are available to any level within the Bartlesville Public School System (teachers, counselors, librarians, principals, or department heads). The grants can be made to individuals or teams when a team approach is used. It can include parents or students. It must also have a leader who is responsible for the grant and is a member of the Bartlesville Public School System. This leader must be specified for the purpose of making out the check and collecting the final paperwork. • Grants will be given for new and innovative approaches to education that develop or supplement programs that stimulate thought and/or expand the existing curriculum. • Grants will be given for ideas that are proven but have a new approach to implementation or usage; ideas that are proven but have not been used within the school system, school, department, etc.; and ideas that build on existing approaches. • Grants can be requested that span multiple years. It is our goal to have the school system incorporate successful grant programs into the curriculum, but realize that some ideas take time to prove and/or implement. Therefore, multi-year grants are allowed but must be resubmitted for review and approval each year. • The grant application must be anonymous. Exclude any references to your name or site. Please DO include the grade level and/or subject you teach. • The Foundation CANNOT fund capital improvements, basic curriculum, or teacher compensation in any form.     Grants will be awarded twice each year. Application submittal deadlines are October1 and February 1 (or the following work day if these dates fall on a weekend or holiday). Approximately 50% of the available funds may be awarded at each cycle.   Guidelines used to judge grant applications • The 3 “E’s"     Does this grant enhance, enrich or expand the curriculum? Is it a new, innovative or creative approach to teaching/learning at the site? Does it build on an existing program? • “Need"     Does the grant clearly define the need for this idea/program? Is the need validated with studies, test scores, teacher observations, etc.? Is it explained how this idea, program, item will address the “need”? (Please remember, this cannot be a basic curriculum need.) • "Quality"     What is the overall quality of the grant? Was the grant idea, project, or concept clear?  Were the application questions answered by the writer? When you finished reading the grant were you “sold" on the idea? Were you excited about the project? Were you convinced it was worthy of funding? • “Reach”     How many students will be affected over how many years? What is the dollar-to-student ratio? This criteria is the least important of the four and isused mainly in the case of a tie.